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Teachers, parents and students press board on workload, classroom safety, vaping and CTE weighting
Summary
Public forum speakers at the Dec. 9 meeting urged the board to address unsustainable teacher workload, rising behavior incidents and special-education strain, requested clearer consequences for unsafe conduct, asked for student voice on vaping and proposed AP-weighting for the Teacher Academy of Maryland (TAM) pathway.
During public forum on Dec. 9 multiple speakers urged the Board of Education to respond to classroom conditions and support pipeline programs.
Beth Ullman, an elementary general-music teacher, described an ‘‘unsustainable’’ workload that now includes data tracking for hundreds of students and added intervention duties that pull teachers from core instruction. Peter Ullman spoke on behalf of elementary colleagues, saying teachers are spending more time managing disruptive and sometimes violent behaviors and that…
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